Leake
"leake" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Leake” is uncommon English (frequency #56,240 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,240
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leake · Leake · English
Leake · rank #56,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,240
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Legg
Nearest frequency peer: Legg (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Leake”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- lacklustre
lacklustre
43,765 corpus weight
- Lak
Lak
43,764 corpus weight
- Leake
Leake
43,761 corpus weight
- Legg
Legg
43,760 corpus weight
- lesbianism
lesbianism
43,759 corpus weight
- letterpress
letterpress
43,758 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Leake” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Leake |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Leake” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Leake is uncommon English at frequency #56,240 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Leake in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: * As an English but ultimately North Germanic surname, from Old Norse lœkr (“stream, brook”). The Norse word is found in many English place names, such as Leck in Lancashire, and the surname could have been from these names. Compare the variant Leach. * Als… The correct English form is Leake, spelled L-E-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
* As an English but ultimately North Germanic surname, from Old Norse lœkr (“stream, brook”). The Norse word is found in many English place names, such as Leck in Lancashire, and the surname could have been from these names. Compare the variant Leach. * Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun leek.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).